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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    ThoughtSpot

    Score8.4 out of 10
    N/AThoughtSpot is an Agentic Analytics Platform for enterprises where users ask data questions using natural language and get answers with AI. Code-first for data teams and code-free for business users, ThoughtSpot can handle large, complex cloud data at scale.

    $1,500

    per year (5 users)

    Vertica Analytics Database

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AThe Vertica Analytics Platform supplies enterprise data warehouses with big data analytics capabilities and modernization. Vertica was acquired and supported by OpenText, then sold to Rocket Software in 2026.N/A
    Pricing
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    Editions & Modules
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Pro
    $50
    per month (billed annually) per user (25-1000 users)
    Thoughtspot Analytics - Enterprise
    Custom
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    Considered Both Products
    ThoughtSpot
    No answer on this topic
    Rocket Software
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    86%
    Would buy again
    37 Answers
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    Delivers good value for the price
    91%
    Delivers good value for the price
    29 Answers
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    Happy with the feature set
    86%
    Happy with the feature set
    37 Answers
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    80%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    24 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    91%
    Implementation went as expected
    29 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    BI Standard Reporting
    Comparison of BI Standard Reporting features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    89 Ratings
    11% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
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    Ratings
    Pixel Perfect reports6.021 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable dashboards8.189 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Formatting Templates7.725 Ratings00 Ratings
    Ad-hoc Reporting
    Comparison of Ad-hoc Reporting features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.5
    91 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
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    Ratings
    Drill-down analysis8.390 Ratings00 Ratings
    Formatting capabilities7.090 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with R or other statistical packages5.949 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report sharing and collaboration8.888 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Output and Scheduling
    Comparison of Report Output and Scheduling features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    84 Ratings
    1% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
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    Publish to Web8.155 Ratings00 Ratings
    Publish to PDF8.478 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Versioning7.918 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report Delivery Scheduling8.364 Ratings00 Ratings
    Delivery to Remote Servers7.935 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data Discovery and Visualization
    Comparison of Data Discovery and Visualization features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    86 Ratings
    10% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
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    Ratings
    Pre-built visualization formats (heatmaps, scatter plots etc.)7.585 Ratings00 Ratings
    Location Analytics / Geographic Visualization7.079 Ratings00 Ratings
    Predictive Analytics7.565 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pattern Recognition and Data Mining6.913 Ratings00 Ratings
    Access Control and Security
    Comparison of Access Control and Security features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    8.1
    86 Ratings
    5% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
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    Multi-User Support (named login)8.282 Ratings00 Ratings
    Role-Based Security Model7.974 Ratings00 Ratings
    Multiple Access Permission Levels (Create, Read, Delete)7.678 Ratings00 Ratings
    Report-Level Access Control7.816 Ratings00 Ratings
    Single Sign-On (SSO)8.772 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Capabilities
    Comparison of Mobile Capabilities features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.3
    53 Ratings
    6% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    Responsive Design for Web Access7.051 Ratings00 Ratings
    Mobile Application6.734 Ratings00 Ratings
    Dashboard / Report / Visualization Interactivity on Mobile6.746 Ratings00 Ratings
    Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding
    Comparison of Application Program Interfaces (APIs) / Embedding features of ThoughtSpot and Vertica Analytics Database
    Feature
    ThoughtSpot
    7.2
    51 Ratings
    7% below category average
    Vertica Analytics Database
    -
    Ratings
    REST API7.342 Ratings00 Ratings
    Javascript API6.835 Ratings00 Ratings
    iFrames8.134 Ratings00 Ratings
    Java API7.013 Ratings00 Ratings
    Themeable User Interface (UI)7.235 Ratings00 Ratings
    Customizable Platform (Open Source)7.115 Ratings00 Ratings
    Best Alternatives
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    Small Businesses
    Cyfe
    Score4 out of 10
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    Medium-sized Companies
    Qlik Cloud Analytics (Qlik Sense)
    Score8.1 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Jaspersoft Community Edition
    Score7 out of 10
    Snowflake
    Score8.7 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.4
    (91 ratings)
    8.0
    (7 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (6 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    8.2
    (85 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Availability
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Performance
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.0
    (4 ratings)
    7.9
    (2 ratings)
    In-Person Training
    5.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Online Training
    4.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    7.0
    (2 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sharing and Collaboration
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Data Sources
    8.4
    (5 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    8.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    ThoughtSpotVertica Analytics Database
    Likelihood to Recommend
    ThoughtSpot
    It is well suited when the same data is consumed by many different people with different analytics and visualization requirements because, if you have the data available in ThoughtSpot, every user can prepare different views. Also, it is a good reporting tool, you can get rid of slides if you have a good dashboard prepared, gaining flexibility and agility.
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    Rocket Software
    Vertica as a data warehouse to deliver analytics in-house and even to your client base on scale is not rivaled anywhere in the market. Frankly, in my experience it is not even close to equaled. Because it is such a powerful data warehouse, some people attempt to use it as a transactional database. It certainly is not one of those. Individual row inserts are slow and do not perform well. Deletes are a whole other story. RDBMS it is definitely not. OLAP it rocks.
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    Pros
    ThoughtSpot
    • Beautiful visualizations. The visuals are distinct, clean, and easy to discern from one another.
    • Intelligent querying functionality. When looking to manipulate the data, the search function makes it easy to manipulate the features in the data, along with aggregating them in the way you'd like.
    • Embedding! It has been a smooth process thus far for our product & technical teams to work with ThoughtSpot and bring it into our product.
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    Rocket Software
    • Extremely fast query performance - Vertica is one of the fastest query engines out there.
    • Scales to TBs - Scales reasonably well up to 10-20 nodes and 10 - 100s of TB of data.
    • Easy to Use - Fairly easy to user, we made quite some headway with just 1 person running it for a while.
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    Cons
    ThoughtSpot
    • It would be great if ThoughtSpot can add the feature to filter by clicking on visualizations. i.e if I click on a particular data point in the chart if the full dashboard can filter just for that particular data point.
    • Color coding the heatmap with different colors like green to orange to red.
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    Rocket Software
    • Could use some work on better integrating with cloud providers and open source technologies. For AWS you will find an AMI in the marketplace and recently a connector for loading data from S3 directly was created. With last release, integration with Kafka was added that can help.
    • Managing large workloads (concurrent queries) is a bit challenging.
    • Having a way to provide an estimate on the duration for currently executing queries / etc. can be helpful. Vertica provides some counters for the query execution engine that are helpful but some may find confusing.
    • Unloading data over JDBC is very slow. We've had to come up with alternatives based on vsql, etc. Not a very clean, official on how to unload data.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    ThoughtSpot
    I give it just waiting because passport is brilliant and it has helped our organisation In advancing to the next stage in the age of AI. It has allowed or non-tech people to better service and clients in a cost-effective way. George port has allowed us to create new products for us and for our clients increasing our revenue streams and reducing clients churn
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    Rocket Software
    No answers on this topic
    Usability
    ThoughtSpot
    The rating is because of the ease of use of the interface as it has a no code interface that makes it easy to setup data pipelines without extensive programming. Cloud native integration: It integrates seamlessly with cloud based data warehouses. Automated data loading, Scalability, Cost Effective, Transformations, Data Governance and security.
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    Rocket Software
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    Reliability and Availability
    ThoughtSpot
    it's available unless there is a server or system update etc. sometimes the timing of this is bad (for example during a month end close)
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    Performance
    ThoughtSpot
    It does what it is supposed to. Would be nice to have a bit more insights
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    Support Rating
    ThoughtSpot
    I give it this meeting because the team is not only help able to help us in the current solutions but also amazing and taking feedback and feeding it back to their development team which includes more products and features into ThoughtSpot
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    Rocket Software
    I haven't had any recent opportunity to reach out to Vertica support. From what I remember, I believe whenever I reached out to them the experience was smooth.
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    In-Person Training
    ThoughtSpot
    inhouse in-person training. Took a bit to long to get the basics.
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    Online Training
    ThoughtSpot
    poor instructions
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    Implementation Rating
    ThoughtSpot
    Understand use case and model and design accordingly
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    Alternatives Considered
    ThoughtSpot
    We also explored Tableau Ask Data. Tableau is our standard for BI in our organization. We want to use the smallest amount of tools in our company to have the best adaption. ThoughSpot will fill a few gaps that we have with our current set up and will also enhance out offering for our employees in the transition of being more data driven within in near future
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    Rocket Software
    Vertica performs well when the query has good stats and is tuned well. Options for GUI clients are ugly and outdated. IO optimized: it's a columnar store with no indexing structures to maintain like traditional databases. The indexing is achieved by storing the data sorted on disk, which itself is run transparently as a background process.
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    Scalability
    ThoughtSpot
    Because it is very reliable, inside the situation, we need strong internet connection to access a lot of data but easily never had any downtime except during the upgrades
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    Rocket Software
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    Return on Investment
    ThoughtSpot
    • Time to market ROI is massive vs hiring the full-time dedicated team to build and maintain a frontend multi-tenant SaaS data viz product.
    • It will be interesting to see over time how the advanced features play out in terms of usability and end value, such as Natural Search, which we are very excited about, and the machine learning tools.
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    Rocket Software
    • Positive impact on ROI by being able to get customer insights in real-time.
    • Positive ROI through reduced time to set-up and maintain Vertica instances.
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    ScreenShots

    ThoughtSpot Screenshots

    Screenshot of the ThoughtSpot home screenScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the Spotter AI agent that surfaces insights through natural language queriesScreenshot of AI Assist producing SQL in real timeScreenshot of SpotIQ, which offers AI-driven insightsScreenshot of the integration with dbt models and metrics